The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb 1:6

This is an animated movie along the lines of Eraserhead or Otesanek, and the target audience isn't young children.

Excerpted from Wikipedia: Though it draws its title character from the fairy tale Tom Thumb, the story and setting is substantially different, depicting Tom as a foetus-like child living in a grim and squalid urban environment.

The story follows the tiny Tom Thumb as he is abducted from his loving parents and taken to an experimental laboratory, and his subsequent escape. He discovers a community of similarly-sized people living in a swamp, who help him on his journey to return to his parents. The film is largely dialogue-free, limited mostly to grunts and other non-verbal vocalizations.

The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb was made using a combination of stop-motion animation and pixilation (live actors posed and shot frame-by-frame), often with live actors and puppets sharing the frame. It was originally commissioned as a 10 minute short for BBC2's Christmas programming, but was rejected for being too dark for the festive season. The short version nevertheless garnered critical acclaim through showings at animation festivals, and a feature-length version was commissioned by the BBC a year later.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108069
http://www.bolexbrothers.co.uk/index.html

Category:

Film & Animation

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• british
• united
• kingdom
• bbc
• stop
• motion
• animation
• claymation
• horror
• fantasy
• sci
• fi
• science
• fiction
• dystopia
• dystopian
• surreal
• surrealism
• creepy
• nightmarish

[twinkkkkkkkkkk]

Used to have this on VHS. Lost it to the first person I lent it too! Played it once to some people brainwashed on Titanic and Tom Cruise movies. Half of them left the room, terrified of the weirdness. The ones that stayed were just as disturbed but fascination clearly won and the transfixed looks on their faces meant to me they might never look at movies the same way ever again. I cant thank you enough!

Check out a movie called 'Marquis' (1989) just as good as this one.

[dubfunk]

Amazing stop animation. Very inspirational from a stop animators perspective. Cheers gents!

[wicked4584]

Eraserhead meets Chaz and Morph!

[spicygaga]

thanks for this i have half on vhs taped from tv in 93

[lovevids336699]

that is one super tough bodyguard XD

[Fridayth31st]

@twinkkkkkkkkkk Marquis (1989)? Does it go by any other names? Because I cant find it anywhere online.

[Flasdingleray]

Just had to say as I've seen this compared with Eraserhead a few times on several sites and I honestly cant see any similarity other than its atmospheric and kind of dark as many things are, but i guess its a compliment;)

[judasatan]

I saw this once on TV when I was a kid. I really thought it was suppose to be a kids movie but mostly it just FUCKED WITH MY MIND.

[ShaneMcD77]

Loved this when it came out. Quite disturbing really! I've done a video on my channel called 'Writhe'. It's a real person done in stop motion. Quite a strange effect. Have a wee look if you get a minute or so!

[NashSpaceRocket]

Bark Psychosis played this on their 'Hex' tour of the UK in 1994, instead of having a support band. Fantastic.

[silenceofthehills]

First time I've ever seen people gone under stop motion.

[lweyl]

@twinkkkkkkkkkk WORDDDD